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Well, it is what it is - I have decided to organize the “Forum Members’ Aggie Awards”, and the big question whether this will work or not depends on you - forum members. I will organize the list, the categories, count the votes and present the winners, but in order for it to work you need to be active and help me along the way - by voting, and expressing your thoughts on the format. The idea is to be as close as possible to the original, but since forum has its limitation and I have only a certain time to spare to this, it will probably be a “condensed” variation, but let’s see how it goes. Again, it depends on you.

I must say that I’m one of the readers who was very enjoying reading Aggies done by Jack/AG Staff every year, and this is a tribute to all the hard work and pleasure it gave us reading first the nominees, and then the winners in the cozy winter nights with a cup of hot cocoa. Since Dale confirmed there won’t be Aggies this year, and until we see another “Aggies” in this form or another, I’ve come to conclusion that we can do this on the forum, and I hope it doesn’t bother anybody. Otherwise, please tell me or message me and I will stop this.

                  Let the battle for Aggie begins!

The first task is to conclude the final list of eligible games. If you see certain game missing from the list, please write it here, or send me a PM. In few days, when I’m certain all games have been listed, I will present the categories and nominees for each, again with you voting for it.

List of games:

A Cure for Jessica
AI: The Somnium Files - nirvanA Initiative
Alumni
Another Tomorrow
Aquamarine
As Dusk Falls
Ashina: The Red Witch
Ashland Dossier
Automaton Kingdom
Azazel’s Christmas Fable
Aztech Forgotten Gods
BROK the InvestiGator
Beacon Pines
Beholder 3
Best Month Ever!
Betrayal At Club Low
Beyond The Edge Of Owlsgard
Blank Frame
Blood Nova
Born Punk
Boxville
Broken Pieces
Bugsnax
Burnhouse Lane
Card Shark
Carol Reed Mystery 17: Amos Green’s Final Repose
Catie in MeowmeowLand
Cats and the Other Lives
Chinatown Detective Agency
Cold Land
Cosmic Security
Crowalt: Traces of The Lost Colony
Crowns and Pawns: Kingdom of Deceit
Dexter Stardust: Adventures in Outer Space
Die O’Clock
Dungeons of Dreadrock
Epiphany City
Eternal Threads
Eyes of Darkness
FAR: Changing Tides
Faded Stories: Greenberg
First Date : Late To Date
FixFox
Freud’s Bones
Frog Detective 3: Corruption at Cowboy County
From Lex to Rex
Gallery : Moa’s Room
Garage Bad Dream Adventure
Gerda: A Flame in Winter
Ghost on the Shore
Gibbon: Beyond the Trees
Glitchhikers: The Spaces Between
Gloomy Juncture
Goetia 2
Hindsight
If Fusion Were That Easy
Immortality
Incoherence
Insomnia: Theater in the Head
Intruder in Antiquonia
JANITOR BLEEDS
James Peris 2
Jennifer Wilde: Unlikely Revolutionaries
Just Ignore Them: Brea’s Story Tape 1
Justin Wack and the Big Time Hack
KAPIA
Know by heart…
Kredolis
Land of Screens
Last Days of Lazarus
Late Bird
Letters - a written adventure
Like No Other: The Legend of the Twin Books
Little Inferno: Ho Ho Holiday
Little Witch in the Woods
Logicality
Lord Temin’s Fortress
Lord Winklebottom Investigates
Lost in Play
Lucy Dreaming
Lunar Axe
Lupa
Magnus Imago
Manglepaw
Mars: The New Eden
Martha is Dead
Mechanic 8230: Escape from Ilgrot
Monorail Stories
Moontrain
Mothmen 1966
Murder Is Game Over
NORCO
Neighbors
Nelson and the Magic Cauldron: The Journey
NeonLore
Nightmare Frames
Nine Noir Lives
Not For Broadcast
One Dreamer
Pants Quest
Pentiment
Perfect Tides
Personal Rocket
Plot of the Druid
Professor Crackbrain - And the awakening of the weredog
Recursive Ruin
Return to Monkey Island
Rocco’s Island: Ring to End the Pain
Rock ‘n’ Roll Will Never Die!
SCP: Secret Files
SPACE ACCIDENT
Silt
Simulacra 3
Slider
Somerville
Sonority
South of the Circle
South of the Circle
Space Adventure - Escape from Siphilus 1b
SpaceVenture
Station 117
Strange Horticulture
Stray
Submerged: Hidden Depths
Summer In Memoria
Sunday Gold
Syberia 4: The World Before
Tape: Unveil the Memories
Thalamus
The Case of the Golden Idol
The Centennial Case: A Shijima Story
The Closing Shift
The Dark Prophecy
The Entropy Centre
The Excavation of Hob’s Barrow
The Forest Quartet
The Gallery
The Hotel (2022)
The House of Da Vinci 3
The Inheritance of Crimson Manor
The Last Cube
The Mystery of William Moore
The Past Within
The Plague Doctor of Wippra
The Quarry
The Spirit and the Mouse
The Story of Barker
The Whispering Valley
There Swings a Skull: Grim Tidings
This Rain Will Never End
Titan Station
Title_Pending
Tom’s Surprise
Treasure Temples
Unusual Findings
Uproot
Vereda
Voodoo Detective
Wanderer
Wayward Strand
We Were Here Forever
We’ll Always Have Paris
Whateverland
Who Pressed Mute on Uncle Marcus?
Who’s Lila?
Wintersdawn in the Deep
Witching Hour
Yonesaware Hospital

FINAL NOMINEES

I think it is an splendid idea and I wish all the luck in your endeavour.

BTW, 3 Minutes to Midnight hasn’t been released yet.

Thank you! Fix’ed.

diego you old so an so, i applaud your initiative!

i’m going to think about my votes. let me know if i can help.

These games are missing from the list:

The Entropy Centre
Gerda: A Flame in Winter
Land of Screens
Lost in Play
Monorail Stories
Not For Broadcast
The Spirit and the Mouse

Great initiative by the way, diego! 

Another point to add is that if we’re aiming to get close to the original, then episodic series which weren’t completed in 2022 (like The Silent Sky) shouldn’t be eligible.

Diego!
The Past Within by Rusty Lake is missing. 

EDIT: Boxville also missing.

EDIT2: Love you to Bits, are you sure? I thought that one was released many years ago. For mobile phones at least.

EDIT3: I have played 16 games on the list. Wow, that’s much more than I thought.

The Aggies didn’t include freeware. Let’s not try to be exhaustive just for a few forum members.

EDIT: diego, I’d suggest you only include games in AG’s database. Steam has lots of obscure indies hardly anyone has heard of.

Thanks all, updated! Keep it going!

@Karlok you’re right, deleted Love You to Bits.

@GateKeeper

Wow, you sure know your lists! I will go through it and add games. As for freewares, I will not include them in this voting.

Karlok - 11 February 2023 07:49 AM

EDIT: diego, I’d suggest you only include games in AG’s database. Steam has lots of obscure indies hardly anyone has heard of.

Yes, that’s a good suggestion, let’s do it like this. However, if any forum member played or think that some game not included in the AG database is a worthy contender, please say so and I will include it.

32 more games added to the list! Thanks to GateKeeper for suggestions, and Karlok for “filtering” the list to the actual database of Adventure Gamers.

Another game missing is Broken Pieces. Despite having bought and being very interested in it I haven’t even managed to install it yet so I’m not sure how ‘adventure game-y’ it is, but it is on this site.

Thanks Diego for taking this on.

Incredible! Everyone: discussing whether Aggies could and should be resurrected, Diego: resurrects Aggies I hope AG would at least post a link to the voting when it starts on the front page.

Diego, are you sure you want to do it “old-style”, i.m. make a list of games for each category? I imagine it would require a lot of time, even with some handy database like mobygames that tags games by their themes and mechanics at your service. If so, maybe the task should be split between volunteers, or assigned using force and threats? In this case we may even have the “Best freeware” category compiled by GateKeeper, for example, or “Best casual adventures” by rtooney, although I think that could be done even without a list of games, same as the “best character” category.

I don’t think “Best Casual Games” deserves a category. At least not this year. I’ve played maybe 20 casual games that were released in 2022. Some of them were more entertaining than others, but none of them were good enough to get into the “Top 20 of All Time” list. (That list is on the forum somewhere, but I don’t have a clue how to find it.)

So saying that a game list represents the best 10 casual games of 2022 isn’t saying much.

@Doom: My guess is that the format has to be old style if it wants to retain continuity with Aggies past.